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Quotes About Decision

When you find your direction, check to make sure that it is the right one.
~ Epictetus
the good of man, and likewise his ill, lies in how he exercises his choice, while everything else is nothing to us
~ Epictetus
Only consider at what price you sell your own will: if for no other reason, at least for this, that you sell it not for a small sum.
~ Epictetus
grammar will tell you how to write; but whether to write or not, grammar will not tell.
~ Epictetus
Después de deliberar y determinar que una línea de acción es acertada, jamás pongas en duda tu juicio. Apoya tu decisión.
~ Epictetus
If you act rashly, without regard to consequences, you may defeat your purposes.
~ Epictetus
And can you be forced by anyone to desire something against your will? 'No.
~ Epictetus
Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us.
~ Epictetus
I can only suppose that you weigh all those negatives against the worth of the show, and choose, in the end, to be patient and put up with it all.
~ Epictetus
Life offers more than one option for doing the right thing.
~ Eric Brende
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~ Eric Emmanuel Schmitt
Early in life, Lincoln decided that he did not want to live like his father, who in his son's eyes exemplified the values of the pre-market world where people remained content with a subsistence lifestyle. From age twenty-one, Lincoln lived in towns and cities and evinced no interest in returning to the farm or to manual labor. He held jobs—storekeeper, lawyer, and surveyor—essential to the market economy.
~ Eric Foner
And what are you thinking of doing now?' my helpmeet and companion in life's race asked me when we were back on the road.
~ Eric Newby
Great leaders sometimes need to appear unbalanced, he thought: "What seems 'balanced' and 'safe' in a crisis is often the most risky.
~ Eric Schlosser
Captain Barry steered the plane back toward land and ordered the crew to bail out. One of the copilots, Captain Theodore Schreier, mistakenly put on a life jacket over his parachute. He was never seen again. The
~ Eric Schlosser
Un homme est fait de choix et de circonstances. Personne n'a de pouvoir sur les circonstances, mais chacun en a sur ses choix.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Le non, on l'a déjà dans notre poche, Momo. Le oui, il nous reste à l'obtenir.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
That day, she became categorically certain of two things: that he annoyed her, profoundly, and, if she could, she would never leave him.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either have or have not. In fact, there is no such thing as freedom except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.
~ Erich Fromm
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
~ Erich Fromm
The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.
~ Erich Fromm
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?
~ Erich Fromm
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love—or to be loved by—is difficult.
~ Erich Fromm
To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.
~ Erich Fromm